INDIANAPOLIS – The Nets announced Friday morning that they had signed rookie swingman Kris Joseph for the rest of the season.

“It’s great,” Joseph said. “To get the chance to be on a playoff team, to get to experience that, and learn, because I know the intensity and everything goes up in the playoffs, it will be good to be around for that and learn from these guys.”

In addition to signing him through the rest of the season, the Nets also gave him a non-guaranteed deal for next season.

The move was expected, after Joseph’s initial 10-day contract with the team expired at midnight Thursday. Joseph was called up and signed by the Nets from their D-League affiliate, the Springfield Armor, on April 2.

Joseph, who was drafted 51st overall last June by the Celtics, played in six games for Boston before he was released in January. He later signed with the D-League’s Maine Red Claws, where he’d spent the majority of his time with the Celtics, as a free agent, before Armor general manager Milton Lee acquired him in a trade.

The former Syracuse standout averaged 19.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, 2.1 assists and shot 43.8 percent from 3-point range in 15 games with the Armor before the Nets opted to call him up.